DL15 postcode district: Crook and around, County Durham
DL15 is a postcode district in England, with 708 postcodes in use in 3 sectors. It has postcodes in Crook and Willington. Its council is County Durham.
- Postcodes in use
- 708
- Sectors
- 3
- Council
- County Durham
- Places
- 2 places
Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Every postcode in DL15, by gigabit broadband
- No home or business can get gigabit: 111
- Some can get gigabit: 72
- Every home and business can get gigabit: 517
- Ofcom gives no figure: 8
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together
Of the 708 postcodes in DL15 that ONS places, 111 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 72 have some that can, 517 can all get it and 8 have no Ofcom figure.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 160 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 54.7110, longitude -1.7303. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre.
Postcodes without gigabit
111 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.
What broadband can you get in DL15?
Ofcom reports on 700 of the 708 postcodes in DL15. At 517 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 2 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is DL15 at risk of flooding?
40 of the 708 postcodes in DL15 have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 140 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
What do homes sell for in DL15?
Homes in DL15 sold for a typical £132,758 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 246 sales, up 14.9% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £250,000 69 sales
- Semi-detached £130,000 59 sales
- Terraced £99,950 117 sales
- Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
Postcodes in DL15
Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.
UK postcode format explainedPlaces in DL15
Towns and villages with postcodes in DL15, and how many each has here.
Who covers DL15
How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.
Councils
What council am I in?Constituencies
- Bishop Auckland448
- City of Durham260
Police force areas
- Durham708
Next to DL15
"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after DL15 in the DL area.
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Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0.
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